Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1900 — Page 4

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Itejected manuscripts will not returned Unless postage Is Inclosed for that purpose. Tili: IM)IA l'OI,IS JOURNAL ! ' Can b found at the following daces: yr.W YORK Autor House and Fifth Avenue Mot!. CHKMJO-Pa!mT House. P. O. News Co.. 217 I Marborn street. CINCINNATI J. R. llawley & Co.. Vine, 'ifroet. LonsviI,L.E-C. T. Deerlng. northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Dook Co,, Fourth avenue. CT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C-IUags House, Ebbltt . House and WIHard's Hotel. Having unburdened himself of his supposed Important Information ex-Consul Macrum has shrunk to the dimensions of a small person. The mythical quality known as "senatorial courtesy" does not prevent senators from Joining to place a studied personal Indult on one who differs from them on a public question. Among: the Republican senators who left the chamber when Senator Beverldge began to speak were those from Iowa. .Yet . the. Iowa Legislature has declared for free trade with Torto Rico. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, who xealously supported Mr. Bryan In 180Ö, has been telling New York papers that the sentiment Is almost unanimous on the part of Democrats In Washington that "the conditions are such as to preclude the success of Mr. Bryan In the presidential contest." - It Is a waste of time and strength for the War Department to correct the statements made by Democrats In the House regarding the extravagance of the quartermaster's bureau, since no kind of evidence will cause them to cease declaring that certain expenditures coat $8,000. when they really cost only $1,310, as shown by the bills. The prize-fighters' law In New York was repealed In the Senate of that State by a strict party vote, which leads the independent Democratic Times to say that such performances "fill all decent people with disgust and convince them that, however Republicans misbehave, nothing Is to be gained by putting the Democrats in their place." j It Is given out that the President will recommend that some features of the war tax be repealed, as It is no longer necessary. Now that the treasury receipts are largely In excess of the expenditures there Is every reason why a cutting down should begin. It Is understood that the ways and means committee Is already considering the matter. There Is but one opinion expressed regarding the action of Republican senators In conspicuously leaving the chamber when Cenaior Beverldge began to speak, and that Is that It was ill-mannered, childish and contemptible. No difference of views, of age or of length of service could Justify euch conduct. It was more befitting a lot of spiteful boys than grave and grayhaired senators. A. war between Russia and Japan, which teem to be approaching, would rresent some Interesting aspects. Numerically and in military resources Russia greatly outclasses Japan, but the latter has a splendid navy, while that of Russia is weak in Fome essential features. On the ocean, therefore, Japan would have decidedly the advantage, and might even prevent Russia from transporting or landing troops. The Japanese arc a pugnacious people. The outlook is not cheerful for the Sugar Trust. All sugar refiners are losing money by reason of the advancing price of raw sugars and the reduced margin between raw and refined. An expert figures the loss of the trust to be a day. The trust is paying dividends on a large amount of stock which represents dead property in the form of refineries purchased at more than their value In order to close them. It has no money with which to buy out the independent refiners, even if they desired c to tell. The Porto Rican civil government and tariff bill now pending in the Senate con- . tains a clause designating the Inhabitants of the island as "citizens of Porto Rico, und as such entitled to the protection of the United States." This awkward phraseology was substituted for the plain designation, "citizens of the United States," to save some imaginary constitutional point and Justtfy the denial of equal trade Tights to the Porto Ricans. It is a poor policy that has to be maintained by that kind of word Juggling. Speaker Henderson's letter Is generally criticised in Washington. Senators resent his allasion to "cowards in the Senate," representatives regard it as a breach of the rule forbidding members of either House to criticise the other, while members of the President' official family resent the expression: "I have the knowledge that I have done my simple duty, and have done It In consultation and co-operation with the President of tho United States." The people at large criticise tho letter because It is a weak and disingenuous defense of an un;opuIar measure. The XouIsvtllc Courler-Jourml predicts that the new currency law will cause t cores of banks to be organized In towns In the South and West which have had no banking facilities, thus putt'ng an end to the 12 to 3 per cent, rates charged by private money lenders or their agents. Already cn licatlons have been made by fif

teen Kentucky towns for 13,00 banks and three for tVU'D. Twenty-one Texas towns have applied for charters, which fndlciles that the banking features of the new lavare regarded with favor throughout the country.

A VAIN HO PK. The contention over the Porto Rican tariff bill has furnished the Democratic managers the opportunity they have long desired of diverting attention from their own condition as a party. They are making as much noise now as they are able, in the expectation that they will be able to divide the Republican party on a comparatively unimportant question ard had a poition of It into the Bryan camp. They' are really hoping, like the drowning man who grasps at a straw, that thousand r.nd thousands of Republicans will leave their party In the event of the passage of the tariff feature of the Torto Rican bill and fall In under the banner of Mr. Bryan with his Popullstlc platform which he has :tst made In Nebraska. They Imagine that Republicans who do not agree with the Porto Rican measure will rush to support the silver heresy, the fiat money heresy, the government . by Injunction and other heresies enunciated by Mr. Bryan In his Nebraska platform. Those leaders seem to Imagine that the men who have urged Congress to pass the currency law and who have applauded it since its passage will Join Mr. Bryan in denouncing it and in sustaining him In his efforts to re;-eal It. But, whether they Imagine it or not. they are making the most of the occasion. At any rate, while they can fix the attention of the people upon some other matter than the demoralized condition of the Democratic party, they are delighted to do so. Republicans and voters who are not Republicans will not lose sight of a number of Important fajcts. They will hot forget that the most general prosperity that this country has ever enjoyed followed the Inauguration of President McKinley and the legislation of a Republican Congress. They will not forget that the great prosperity which attended the last two years of tho Harrison administration ended when the great industries of the country were confronted by a Democratic Congress. Many who were doubtful in 1806 are now assured that much more than the Republicans promised in that campaign has been verified. They also know that the dire calamities which . the Bryanltes predicted if fre3 coinage of silver should not be provided for by law have not only not rome, but that ths largest- prosperity has come by rejecting that heresy. Fewer people have faith in Mr. Bryan now than In August. 1S96. More people will trust the Congress which passed the currency law, even If It does act unwisely In adopting a two-years 15 per cent, tariff for Porto Rico, than a Congress composed of men like those who compose the minority of the present body, with Mr. Bryan as President. as to purchase: of the: damsii weist indies. In view of the unsettled condition of our newly acquired island possessions and of our policy regarding them it Is somewhat surprising that the government should be considering the purchase of the Danish West Indies. How much or how serious consideration the matter is receiving is not known, but it certainly is under consideration. A bill has been introduced in Congress and is now before the foreign relations committee of the House authorizing the purchase of the Islands for $1,000,000. The recent resignation of the Danish Ministry, from the prime minister down. Is said to have been due to popular dissatisfaction and clamor in Denmark against the sale of the islands as directed by the King and hia Cabinet. In the agreement it was stipulated that the sale should be made before the adjournment of the present Congress, so if anything is done in the matter it is likely to be done soon. It has also been stated recently that If the United States did not purchase the islands Germany would take them on a long lease. It is known that they represent an annual deficit of a considerable sum to Denmark and that the government would like to get rid of them, though the people seem to feel differently. Since 1H68, a ieriod of thirtytwo years, only in three years have the revenues of the Islands equaled the expenditures. The deficits In the other twenty-nine years have ranged from about $10.000 a year to nearly $200.000 a year. Last year the deficit was $12,500. The Islands possess great igricultural resources, especially for the production of sugar, and under good government and with an enterprising population might become very prosperous and valuable. There are three of them, St. Croix, better known as Santa Cruz, St. Thomas, and St. John. St. Thomas. Is about thirteen miles long and three wide, with one of the finest harbors in the world, and a population of 13,000. mostly colored. St. Croix contains about seventyfour square miles, of which sixty-eight are tillable, and a population of about 19,000, mostly colored. St. John is a little insular annex of St. Thomas and contains about 1,000 inhabitants. They all lie a short distance southeast of the eastern end of Porto Rico. Their location with reference to the Caribbean sea and the approaches to the Nicaragua canal is such as to give them strategic value, and the harbor of St. Thomas, noted the world over. Is much finer than any In Porto Rico. Whether the possession of Porto Rico makes that of the Danish West Indies less important from a strategic point of view Is for naval experts to say, but the fact that the question of purchasing the islands is under consideration would seem to indicate that their possession Is deemed desirable. It was so regarded thirty years ago, and the United States came very near buying them. Secretary Seward, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska, also negotiated a treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies. In his third annual message, of Dec. 3. 1MT7. President Johnson commented at some length on the importance of the United States obtaining ports and harbors in the West Indies, and paid: I agree with our early statesmen that the West Indies naturally gravitate to, and may be exiected ultimately to be absorbed by the continental states, including our own. I agTee with them also that It Is wise to leave the question of such absorption to this process of- natural' political 'gravitation. The Islands of St. Thomas and St. John, which constitute a part of the group called the Virgin Islands, seemed to offer, us advantages Immediately desirable, while their acquisition could be secured In harmony with the principles to which 1 have alluded. A treaty has therefore been concluded with the King of Denmark for the eesflon of those Islands, and will be submitted to the Senate for consideration. The treaty of-cession had already been signed in October previous, and was the

outcome of negotiations begun by Mr. Seward before the death of Mr. Lincoln. It did not include the Island of St. Croix, and the price to be paid for the Islands of St. Thomas and St. John was J7.iW.000, the same as had been paid for Alaska, and J3.5nrt.0fi0 more. than all, three of the islands could be purchased for now. In accordance with the terms of the treaty the question of the transfer of the islands to the Unlteu States was submitted to a vote of the Inhabitants of the islands and was ratified by a considerable majority. The Danish government also approved the treaty, but t'i' United States Senate refused to ratify it, and thus the negotiation fell to the ground. Had It been submitted to the Senate by a less unpopular President than Mr. Johnson It might have been ratified and the questions of expansion. Imperialism and colonial policy would have been settled thirty years ago. The government and people of Denmark have never quite forgiven the American Senate for the contemptuous manner in which It received the treaty, and probably they would rather sell the islands to any other country than the United States. Their purchase outright by any European power might raise the Monroe doctrine, though as it would merely be one Kuropean power stepping into the shoes of another the application of the doctrine might be denied. ; Denmark, however. Is a less menacing neighbor than Germany would be at a point commanding the approaches to the Nicaragua canal, and England probably would not like to Fee Germany acquire one of the best harbors In the world . In the West Indies. Notwithstanding the trouble we are having just now with our new Island possessions there may be reasons why the United States should purchase the Danish islands now on the market at so low a figure.

Th3 little Island of Guam, which came Into our possession so easily and unexpectedly during the war with Spain, Is likely to prove of considerable importance. The naval authorities at "Washington have decided that strategically it is of scarcely less value than Hawaii, and have begun the preparation of plans to make It one of the most important naval bases on the Fafclflc. Its value as a coaling station s shown by the fact that all naval vessels bound across the Pacific are obliged to coal at Guam, none of them being able to make Manila or Hong-Kong after leaving Honolulu with'full bunkers, except by the exercise Of extreme economy and running at the lowest rate of speed. Experience in the army transport service has shown that r whole day can be saved on the voyage to Manila by running faster and rccoaling at Guam. Consequently, the projected improvements will Include enormous coal sheds, a wharf of fiO.OOO tons capacity, automatlc loading machinery and other features. Involving an outlay of several millions of dollars. Guam occupies the same position relative to the China coast tl.at Bermuda does to the Atlantic seaboard. Ik Ing 1,506 miles from Manila, 1,823 from Hong-Kong, 1,700 from Shanghai, and 1,312 from Yokohama. When the Philippines shall have become a prosperous American colony, and our trade with China shah have Increased several fold, .the Island of Guam, about which we know so little now. will be an Important factor In American commercial domination of the Pacific. It was a good thing for the United States and for all the " countries Included In the "open-door" agreement recently consummated by our Department of State that it did not have to go to the Senate for ratification. If it had, like an ordinary treaty, opposition would have sprung up, objections and suspicions would have been raised, ;the secretary of state would have been censured for something done or omitted, and In the end the agreement would probably have, been tinkered or mutilated In such a way as to cause Its failure. Th-it seems to be the modern senatorial idea of statesmanship. Fortunately, however, this agreement, one of the most Imiortant for the commercial world ever made, and, as the London Times says, "a signal success of American diplomacy," was consummated and executed without having to run the gauntlet of the Senate. Captain J. H. Culver, of Nebraska, who has arrived home from the Philippines on leave, says Bryan's name Is almost as familiar to the Filipinos as that of Agulnaldo, extracts from his speeches having been freely distributed among them. He says the policy of those who still hold out Is to carry on a bushwhacking campaign until next fall, when they hope Bryan will be elected and their independence. assured. It Is hardly necessary to say that Captain Culver is not for the Nebraska statesman. The latest story for the marines In politics Is that the admirers of Representative Landls arc urging him for president of the Republican state convention with the expectation that he will make such a brilliant speech that he will stampede the convention and make him its candidate. The Republican state convention will not be a Bryan convention to be stampeded; besides, Mr. Landis prefers to remain in the House, for which work he has shown a peculiar fitness. That Muncle hotel porter who forsook his prayers to carve his way to freedom with a bungstarter evidently considered that, while prayer is mighty, faith without works is dead. The spectacle of South Trimble running for Congress in the "Old Ashland" district of Kentucky is enough to make the wraith of Henry Clay rise in wrath and tears. The Invocation to common sense seems to have permanently shelved the danger of a powder explosion in the Indiana mining camp. It will be noted that "Tallow" Dick Combs was not soft enough to run In the fierce heat of a Campbeli-Goebel warrant. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. The Howard-Shlvely tangle looks to be the biggest act of blundering the Indiana Democracy ever worked up. It is dividing the party all over the State. South Bend Tribune. It Is not to the credit of any member of the. United States Senate that he talk loudly and pathetically of the sufferings of the I"orto Ricans and then vote against the bill appropriating J2.ono.oou for their relief, as only Democrats did. Iafayette Courier. The opponents of. the county and township reform laws are said to be working quietly to secure the nomination of candidates for the Legislature In many counties who are opposed to those laws and would vote for their repeal or for modifying them In such a way as to make them valueless. It therefore behooves the friends

of those Important measures to be vigilant In order to prevent the politicians from accomplishing this end.-South Bend Times. Secretary Hay'Tjs receiving a great deal of deserved praise for his success in opening the China door. The wonder among diplomats is that he secured all these pledges without making any concessions In return. The achievement is said to be without precedent. Marlon Chronicle. A single company In the Philippines deIK)slted Jl.5f.i0 with the paymaster of their regiment for transmission home and for safe keeping. These are the men whom sensationalists tell u are riotous and drunken and are corrupting the blameless natives. Clay County Enterprise. If the national legislature is so desirous of some sort of a "compromise" on the Porto Rican matter why does it not prepare and pass a bill providing for the establishment of a civil government In the island and leave debates of revenues and other matters to the careful study and report of the government thus established? Elkhart Review. "Now that the gold standard is an assured thing," explains the Democratic editor, "the country need not be afraid of the silver plank we propose t place in our platform." In other words, this plank will be added for the purpose of deception and not as an evidence of good faith. There Is no discount upon the persistency and consistency of the Democratic party when it comes to plain and fancy humbugging. But do the people of the United States want to place In power a party whose hands must first be tied before they can be trusted? Hammond Tribune. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. March. March goes out like aiion-out-of-doors. if you please. Uut. indoors, it departs like spring lamb and green peas. Behavior and Hennty. "Daughter, 1 hope that your highest ambition is to be good." "Of course, pa; and good looking." Woman Again, Her vernal rush she loudly wails; she gets her cloth and board of oak;- then on the patterns reads the tales, and doesn't cut a single stroke.

After the HnmmnKe Sale. He searched his wardrobe through and through His last spring's coat to find; Alas! his wife had been .there, too. And naught was left behind. .Trying to lie In It. "Those new folks next door are too swagger for this neighborhood." "Do they use finger-bowls three times a day?" "I don't know; but they call their front hall a 'porte cochere.' " ' - The Autocratic Cenaor. "Politics is an expensive game to play at I can tell you." "You're not running for office?" "No; but our boss docks 'every man $1 a week If he mentions that topic during business hours." Insult Added to Injnry. "That woman editor hurt my feelings terribly." "Did she say she had thrown your poetry in her waste-basket?" "No; she said she Imd throwri'it in her trashbasket." :.!? IN TROUBLE AGAIN. J. t. E'lillennrider, Formerly of Indianapolis, Arretted at Omaha. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. OMAHA, Neb., March 30. John C. FulIcnwider is fäcing two. charges, one of defrauding Landlord Cady. of the Dellone Hotel, out of a board bill, and the other of liquidating that board bill by passing a forged check. The. cne, against him was on trial in Judge Baker's court to-day but ) I ' M ; I I - was continued. At one time Fullenwider was a resident of Indianapolis, where he was reputed to be rich. After losing his fortune be came Wesr, flndly drifting Into Omaha. Here he mad;va little money selling articles on the street. Sales were poor and It was not long until he was unable to pay his bills at the Dellone Hotel, where he was stopping. Fullenwider was put out. of the house and a few days later he settled his bill with a check for J13.50, made payable to himself, and purporting to have been drawn by Nathan - Crepts. who was represented as a .business man In some little town In Wisconsin. Investigation showed there was no Nathan Crepts at the town named and that no Nathan Crepts had any account in the bank on which the check was. drawn. Immediately Fullcnwider was arrested - on the two charges. . The accused is a distinguished-looking old man. His head is silvered with age and his whiskers are nearly as white as snow. To add to his general appearance he wears several articles of Jewelry, relics of better days. Cady did not appear to prosecute and the prisoner was discharged, the court having instructed the Jury to find a verdict of acquittal. Then' Fullen wider was rearrested on a charge like that originally filed. ' HARVARD WON DEBATE. Yale Could Not Carry a Tariff mil for Porto . Rico. NEW HAVEN, Conn.. March 30. Harvard won the annual debate with Yale tonight, the question being; "Resolved. That Porto Rico should be' included In the customs boundaries of the United States." Harvard had the affirmative side of the question. The debate was well contested throughout with the Harvard debaters showing somewhat better form and manner. Chief Justice Parker,, of the Court of Appeals of New York. Prof. G. W. Fepper, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. R. J. Goodenow, of Columbia, were the committee of judges. President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale, presided. Harvard wras represented by Wilbur Morse, of Philadelphia, KU Mayer, of Chicago, and Harry A. Yeomans. of Spokane. Wash. Yale's speakers were Mason Trowbridge, of Chicago, Ashley D. Leavitt, of Melrose. Mass. and Ferdinand Blanchard. of Newton, Mass. la Thin a Winning: Issue f Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.). Suppose that the advice of Senator Davis be Ignored. Suppose that our "plain duty" be flouted. Suppose that the principle of "one flag and one destiny" be t repudiated. Suppose that the promise of "equal blessings and immunities" to the Porto Ricans be faithlessly broken. What then? Simply this: The Republican" party must go before the people in the congressional and presidential elections of next fall on the platform of "free rum and taxed bread. free rum and taxed clothing, free rum and taxed medicines." It cannot escape this disastrous Issue, which has been avowed in the acts of the Oxnard faction in the Senate and has been specifically set forth by the leader of the Republican party In the House. Do the Republicans of the Middle West Imagine that they can stand and win on this plank next fall? Do the Republican representatives from the Mississippi valley believe that they can be re-elected on the Issue of free rum. taxed bread and broken faith? Paaaen and Awesment for Jndgea. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I respectfully submit to the committee on resolutions for the coming ?tate convention that the times are propitious and the occasion ripe to report resolutions denouncing the acceptance of passes from corporations by all Judges supreme, appellate, circuit, superior or criminal within the State of Indiana. "A gift maketh justice blind." The judges should be like Caesar's wife, "beyond suspicion." The Wisconsin Republicans have acted promptly on the subject. Another evil I call attention to. It Is this: The assessing for political purposes of the candidates for Judgeships. Is a Judge In proper frame of mind to Impartially decide- questions of bribery at elections when he has himself contributed to the corruption fund? We should not denounce 'Tammany methods" In regard to Judgeships until we are free from censure ourselves. . D. II.. CHASE. . Logansport, Ind.,; March 00.

HADES FORTES YEARS

steu e:uercs de:shiptio f the CO El It O'ALRXB DISTRICT. Sayn the. Trnnhle In Idaho'a Mining llefflon Waa Cauaed Uy Criminal and Annrchists. REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS POLITICAL HOOVIKR AMI FOIl MESS HS. LEXTZ AXD Sl'LZKR. The Governor a Bryanlle of the Rankest Kind, and Never Conferred with IIa n lift or Dick. WASHINGTON. March 30. Governor Steunenberg resumed his testimony at the Coeur d'Alene Investigation to-day. Mr. Sulzer conducting the cross-examination. The Governor related his various talks with General Merrlam. He first met him in May last and went over the insurrectionary conditions and the necessity for troops. The Governor said . he requested General Merrlam to order the troops to Shoshone county and he did so. When asked who was in supreme command in Shoshone county. General Merrlam or Bartlett Sinclair, the Governor stated that he himself was the responsible head of authority, although he did not exercise any control or command of the troops. There was no agreement with General Merriam, said the Governor, that the labor organizations were to be broken up, nor was there any talk of suppressing them. The Governor again went over his trips to Washington, his call on the President and the brief talk with Mr. McKinley. Questioned as to what the President said. Governor Steunenberg replied that the President listened to the brief recital of conditions and the necessity of the continued presence of the troops but made no reply. The Governor also was examined as to the calls on Secretary Root and said the latter intended to withdraw the troops from guard duty on Oct. 20. The Governor called to protest against this. He found the secretary was quite determined to withdraw the troops, an order to this effect having been issued, and most of the Governor's efforts were directed to showing to the military authorities that the troops should not be withdrawn. The withdrawal was finally prepared. NO POLITICS IN IT. The Governor denied there was any talk of politics In connection with the postponement. He told the secretary there was no militia available and not sufficient time to raise a local guard before the troops were to be withdrawn, and these representations brought about the postponement. At present the troops were not on guard, but were in garrison. Further questioned as to calls on the President, the Governor said that the President told one of the delegations that he had acted as an official sending troops on the Governor's call, and that sny other course would not have been a compliance with his sworn duty. When Mr. Sulzer referred to the "reign of terror you Inaugurated" Governor Steunenberg answered emphatically: "I did not inaugurate a reign of terror. It was there before I got there and has existed there for the last seven years." He said, further, to Mr. Lentz: "I know that country has been a hell on earth for the last ten years." Representative Dick opened the redirect examination when the cross-questioning had closed. He said he was sorry politics had been brought into the inquiry, but, as this had occurred, he would pursue that course to some extent. He asked Governor Steunenberg as to reports of his communicating with Senator Hanna or with him (Mr. Dick), to which the Governor replied that he had never seen cither of them until he came to Washington. The Governor said he was elected as a Democrat in 18W and 189S. "Did you support Mr. Bryan?" asked Mr. Dick. "I did." "Would you Fupport him again?" "Most assuredly. If he is nominated again I will support him. by all means." Mr. Dick inquired If Mr. Bryan had ever written or expressed any protest or disapproval of the Governor's course. Mr. Sulzer and Mr. Lentz protested and Mr. Hay, of Virginia, objected on the ground that Mr. Bryan was not President. "But he will be soon." remarked Mr. Lentz, who added that Mr. Bryan would not declare martial law. The committee voted to allow the question as to whether Mr. Bryan had protested, and Governor Steunenberg said he had never heard from Mr. Bryan In protest or otherwise. "Has any prospective vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket protested to you?" asked Mr. Dick, amid much laughter, directed toward Mr. Sulzer. The Governor said there had been no such protest. The Inquiry was then directed to showing the circumstances under which the Governor had called for troops. NO CRUELTY IN THE "BULL PEN." Representative Dick then went over a number of the alleged acts of cruelty occurring in the "bull pen." As to statements of the killing of a prisoner, Johnson, the Governor said that on investigation he learned that it was a case of suicide of the Insane man. As to the charge of a dying prisoner being refused the services of a priest, the Governor said that an investigation showed the story to be absolutely false. The Governor specifically denied the charge that men were subjected to "vile and inhuman imprisonment." Everything was done for the prisoners that was possible under the circumstances, he nald. Warden Coakley was in charge of the prison, and no complaints were made against him. Many persons who visited the prison expressed astonishment and said they had been led to believe by the newspapers that the prison was a "hell on earth." whereas they found it orderly and clean. Senator Shoup made such a statement and others were specified by the, Governor. As to the charges that an army had placed the men on a standing line, had called them "cowardly curs." the Governor said he never heard of this action and no complaint was ever made to him. The prisoners were at one time placed by the military on bread and water because of . an infraction of prison rules. . Governor Steunenberg said he never suspended the writ of habeas corpus, nor was the writ otherwise suspended. Specific writs were denied by the courts, but this did not operate as a generel suspension of this process. To the charge that free speech was suppressed, the Governor said he had given notice that a memorial service, commemorating a fight between the union and nonunion men In 1S.02 when the Frisco mill was blown up. should not be held while the community was in such an excited state. There was no interference with the decorating of miners' graves, as had been charged. On the charge that the free press was suppressed the Governor said the only Interference was with the Mullan Mirror, bt cause of seditious and Inflammatory publications calculated to arouse further trouble. Governor Steunenberg denied that meetings of labor unions were prohibited. There were many union men in the district as they were free to hold meetings. He characterized as outrageous the charge that the Bunker Hill mine and other organizations had dictated the policy of the State. This pollcjV he said, was dictated solely by a desire to give to a county that security and order It had not enjoyed in ten years. Many of General Merrlam's dispatches and reports were read and Governor Steunenberg confirmed most of the statements made. He also reaffirmed that the disorder was caused by criminal and anarchistic organizations, cloaking themselves as labor organizations and havinj

none of the alms of the great body of labor organizations. Governor Steunenberg presented the findings of a grand jury in 1K4, setting forth the lawlessness prevailing and the depredations of mobs of masked men. Messrs. Hay ami Icntz protested against going into e ld conditions, declaring that It opened the door to political controversy and a protracted Investigation. Governor Steunenberg's closing statement of the day attracted much attention for Its vivid recital of a series of lawless depredations In the Coeur d'AIenes. which he said had spread terror through the community. He stated that the house of the judge of first district. Judge Mayhew, had been entered at night by an armed and masked man who wanted to know how a ruling of the court was to be made. On another occasion an armed mob waited on a judge and told him he had "better rule right." The Governor said fifty citizens had told him that their lives would be worth nothing if It became known that they had disclosed acts of lawlessness which occurred.

WILLIAM GARD'S DEED. Shoots Three While Temporarily Insane and Kllla lllmaelf. CINCINNATI, O., March 30. In a fit of temporary insanity William Gard, aged twenty-three years and single, to-day shot three men and then klfied himself. Gard was varnlsher at the Victor safe and lock works, at Ninth and Broadway, a brother-in-law of Henry Stump. suierlntendent of the plant, and a man without any bad habits.. He was known as a sober. Industrious man, who supported his widowed mother. While the employes of the Victor works were taking their noon lunch to-day Gard,' without provocation or warning, commenced firing promiscuously at them and caused such consternation that a riot alarm was turned In and patrol wagons hastened to the plant. It was found that E. Miller, of Madlsonville, was shot in the head and fatally injured. Thomas Waldron was shot through the nose and John Guthjahr was shot through the shoulder. Other shots went astray. All the victims are at the hospital and are doing well except Miller. The injuries of Waldron and Guthjahr are serious but not dangerous. Gard fled like a mad man. but afterwards took an electric car for the home of his mother and shot himself as soon as he reached home, dying Instantly. Mrs. Gard, the mother, was suffering from heart trouble and Is In a precarious condition toright. WHEN TO GO TO FLORIDA DR. W. B. FLETCHER SAYS SUMMER IS THE BEST TIME FOR INVALIDS. More Tonic In the Air Than In Winter The Orange and Other Indnn tries Show 3Inch Promise. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. ORLANDO, Fla., March 28. We left Indianapolis on the 16th of March for Florida. En route we had a view rarelybeheld by the traveler and that was magnificent winter scenery through the hills of Kentucky, the mountains of Tennessee, and even to Atlanta, Ga. Sunday morning brought us to Orlando, Orange county, Florida, in time to behold a beautiful sunrise over the numerous clear and crystal lakes; by 6 o'clock we were at "Cooter Core Camp," where the youngsters, instead of staying In to help prepare the breakfast, broke for .the woods and fields to return with arms full of the great variety of wild flowers. The orange trees were in full blossom and the air as balmy as on tome "rare day In June" at home. I was astonished to find that so many invalids, whom I had left in and about Orlando last December, had either gone North or were preparing to do so. Certainly nothing could be more Injurious to them than the change at this season. From personal observation of twenty-five years I have concluded that Invalids derive greater benefit from residing in Florida during the months from March to December than during the so-called winter season. March, April and May are delightful here; it is then that the amount of ozone is Increased tenfold; it Is then the sun, air, and increased vegetation give renewed vitality to animal nature, and an Invalid gets twice as much tonic in each breath as in the winter months. December and to the last of February are the worst. . I spent last August here and the heat was at no time greater than at home, and beside, we had twice daily a sea breeze, and usually an evening shower. " Were I an invalid, and could afford lt. I would spend the winter In a first-class hotel In Boston. New York or Philadelphia, but would seek the piny woods, silvery lakes and sparkling streams of Florida during the spring and summer months. There is perhaps no State or Territory in the Union that presents greater attractions to the sportsman than Florida. Boar, deer, wild turkey, quail and duck arc abundant, and as for fish, either on the coast or inland, nothing could excell. It is the home of the bass here called trout and almost every little lake and river abounds with them. SOME BIG FISH. Last Sunday my near neighbor, a colored man, and his son came walking up the road toward me with what I at first supposed a monster catfish. They had a pole through the gills and mouth, each holding one end of the pole. When they came closer I beheld a black bass with a mouth that resembled the flared end of the big trombone in the orchestra. The fish mearured three feet three inches from snout to fork of tail, and weighed nineteen pounds. It was claimed to weigh twenty, but my eyes did not deceive me It was nineteen pounds,' no more and no less. Well, that fish was not caught on a silk line with a four-ounce rod and a fly. He Just caught himself. He was evidently In full chase of minnows and got excited, and, being under full headway, jumped over a mass of lily pads and sawgrass, clear over a little sandbar Into a pool not more than six feet long and eight inches deep, and was found by a little colored boy on his way home from Sunday school. The boy could not take the fish out alone because of the showers of water splashed about. One of my neighbors. Mr. Miner Berry, took, last Friday afternoon, twenty-six bass out of a lake not more than a half mile from where I am now writing, using a fly and light steel rod. The largest weighed six and three-quarter pounds, most of them one and a half to two pounds. The latter-weight fish I regard as prime for the tabl. There has been a general cry in the North about the total destruction of orange culture In Florida. That is all nonsense. There were thousands of boxes of line oranges shipped last year, and more grain; fruit which is becoming more sought for than the orange and pineapples in number, size and flavor unlike any ever before known in our markets. Before the freeze of isr Florida shipped six hundred thousand lnxes of oranges. This year there will be from one-half to two-thirds that number for the market. From the freeze Florida learned a lesson, dnd that was not to depend on one crop. Attention ! no:v turned to raising cassava and velvet !eain. which are converted Into beef and pork and finally fertilizer. In two years Florida will not depend, as now. entirely on the North for beef, mutton and pork. One thing I have noticed as an Indication of Florida's "picking up" Is the number of abandoned places that are being bought up. Prices In real estate have advanced materially during the past two years. The summer season along the gulf shore or the Atlantic coast where good and Inexpensive hotels are open during the whole year is the most delightful resort for invalids or sportsmen, and I predict that within ten years more people will visit these places In summer than In winter. DR. W. B: FLETCHER.

S TOLD BY CILOIORE

i1 now the lie:i ti:at ami his jinx WEHE CAPTl RED. Official Report on One of the 31 out Thrilling Incidents of the War In the Philippines. EXECUTION OF FILIPINOS TWO MIRÜEIIERS HANGED IX FRO. NT OE' A ClU HCH. Proceeding; n Charit of 1'ntted States OmcerThe Philippine Commission Heady. WASHINGTON. March 50. Tle Navy Department has Just received from Admiral Watson a copy of the report made to him by Lieutenant Gillmore of the circumstances attending the ambuscade and capture of the Yorktown's boat and crew, commanded by him at Baler, April 12 last. The report Is a concise, plain, yet thrilling account of the tragedy at the mouth of the river which resulted In the loss of the lives of several sailors and the taking into an eight months captivity of the remainder of the little crew. It appears for the first time from this report that Lieutenant Gillmore did not violate his orders In entering the river, but did so for the sole purpo of protecting two of the Yorktown's officers whom he had been directed to land. The Yorktown at the time was trying to relieve a small Spanish garrison which wai beset by the Filipinos In a church at Baler, and the two officers referred to had undertaken to make a reconnolshance. Lieutenant Gillmore' s account of the tragedy which followed the attempt to execute his orders Is given In the report as follows: "Manila. P. I.. Jan. 8. "Sir I have the honor to report the following In regard to the capture of the second cutter and crew of the Yorktown, of which I had charge, by Filipinos at Baler April 12, USP9. My diary and official correspondence with the Filipino official were lost In the rapids of the Arboluque river. "On the evening of April Jt the commanding officer of the Yorktown sent for m. and said he wished me.-the following morning, to take charge of a boat to land Ensign W. 11. Standley and a quartermaster, who were to make a reconnolssance to disccver the whereabouts of the church defended by, the Spanish prisoners In Baie'r, Mr. Standley and the quartermaster were to be landed at the small cove to the eastward of the river, running past the town o Baler, province of Principe. The commanding officer said he would not hamper me by orders, but directed me not to land, but to sound at the mouth of the river and ascertain the distance of the ship from the mouth. If necessary, I was to make a demonstration to call the enemy's attention from the people landed. NAMES OF THE CREW. "About 4:20 a. m. of April 12 I left the ship with the second cutter. Ensign Standley and a quartermaster as passengers. The boat was armed with a Colt automatic gun in the bow, and the crew with Ix-e rifles and belts filled with ammunition. Following are the names of the boat's crew: Chief .Quartermaster Walton". ailinakers' Mate Voudouit. Coxswain Eilsworth. Gunners Mate (third class) Nygard. Seamen Rynders and Woodbury. Ordinary Seamen Drisolrse and McDonald. . Landsmen Dillon. Morrissey. Kd wards and Anderson, Apprentice (first class) Vanville and Apprentice (second class) Peterson. "We rulled in under muffled oars, .and landed Mr. Standley and the quartermaster. It was just early daylight when we pulled out of the cove from th river's mouth. When near the river 1 saw that a sentry on one of the numerous stations n tue beach had seen us. I thought probably that he had also seen us land Mr. Standley; so. to let him think that I had been starching for the river I pulled for It. sounded the bar, ascertained the distance of the ship from the river's mouth and continued in for about 1.000 yards, sounding slowlj and making a rough sketch. 'This, 1 thought, would make them believe that I had lande! nobod.v, but was simply surveying the river. I knew that we would have to sustain the fire of the enemy as we came out, but I trusted 4o the Colt to 'Isarrange their aim. which at best is not gcod. I was quite sure that this would serve to put them off the Idea of any one landing In the cove, and I have every reason to believe now that it did. "The left bank, the side toward the enemy, was covered by high marsh grass and swamp land, and I knew that no outposts could be there. The right bank was steep, too, and covered with a dene growth, and from observation IJudged the enemy had only their stations on the left side of the river. As we reared the end of the swamp land I was about to give orders to return when we rounded the bend and amo fuil on an outpost on solid ground. He hailed us and fired a rifle as a signal. Before I cculd answer the hall a volley was fired into us at close range fifty or sixty yards. EFFECT OF THE VOLLEY. "The effect of this volley was terrible, Morrlssey was killed instantly, his brains being scattered over the boat and crew, and Dillon was mortally wounded, never recovering consciousness and dying shortly afterward. In the boat. Seaman Rynders had his fingers cut off the hand, but kept bravely to his starboard stroke oar, the starboard oars were riddled and most of them shattered; beside the boat was pierced by the Remington balls and made water fast. "As soon as possible after recovering from the first shock, we opened fire with the Colt and rillcs. The ambush was to complete that we could not see at what to fire, not even the smoke. The Colt was thrown out of action before the second-, volley, shattering the ammunition box and cutting the loading tape. The order was given to back oars, but as only a few could be used the others being shattered the tide drifted us on a sandbank. E'vvorth, Edwards and Woodbury tried to swim the !oat out. but did not succeetl. The volleys were poured tn ou us on the left bank in quick succession, wounding mortally McDonald and Nygard. At this time I was under the Impression that most of the crew were cither wounded or killM. The bodies of the men who had been killed had fallen on the wounded men. who wer; struggling in the bottom of the boat. The.) boat was covered with blood and presented a fearful sight. The cries of the mortallj wounded in the stern of the boat, asking me to shoot them and not allow them to fall into the hands of the savages, were heartrending. At the same time could be seen coming down the right bank of ths river a band of men armed with Remingtons, bows and arrows, bolos and spears. "1 gave the order to hoist the white flag, which was done by Rynders. who receivt-d a shot in the right wrist and dropped the flag. I thought the enemy Intended to massacre all of us. so continued to lire, the fire of the enemy coming faster. We wero now hailed from the left bank in Spanish, an officer saying that if wo did not cease tiring and surrender he would km us. I then surrendered. Before the officer on tho left bank could get across, the avagca iri the right bank came up. tx.k us ofT the boat, roblwd us of rings, watches, hats. -caps, clothes, in fact everything they eouM get at short notice, tied our arms behind us with bamboo thongs, and lined u up on the U-ach to be hot. Those who had rifles loaned them and had them ulready cocked when au officer came out of the brush and ordered otherwise. We were then sent on boar! the boat and after plußglng p the holes made by rifle balU . pulled up the river. THE CASUALTIES. "I rcRret to ay that I now found the following casualties: Morrlssey and Dillon dead; Nygard and McDonald mortally wounded; Van Vllle. Rynders and Wood-' bury seriously wounded; myself slightly wounded in the knee by a ball which came throuRh the lde of the toat. The wound healed on arrival In San Ysidro. We werf